Books are expensive. They are expensive in Lithuania, and other countries as well. It is not surprising to see that Lithuanian translations of famous foreign writers in local bookstores cost more than books in original language at amazon.com or other on-line sellers. However, price difference of 1 or 2 EUR is too small to cover shipping costs so there is still a motivation to buy book published in Lithuania.
Few week later I got a surprise which encouraged me to write this post. Surprise came from Fyodor Dostoyevsky but not for what he wrote or did. Surprising was the price of one of his most famous novels "The Brothers Karamazov" in one of the Vilnius bookstores. Price of English translation of this novel published by Oxford University Press was only 22 litas (1 EUR = 3.45 LTL) while Lithuanian translation price in all bookstores is higher than 26 litas. So in the case of English classical books the difference should be even higher.
